I am writing a kernel module which intercepts the file close operation by trapping the sys_close function.
One of my requirement is to get the absolute path of the file being closed.
I have only the file descriptor which is to be closed.
Can anyone help me to get absolute file path from the filedescriptor at kernel .

Threre is a command "fstat" that returns the information of a file and takes file discriptor as an aurgument, look if that helps you, also there is a command "fcntl" that also manuplated file descriptors. But I don't thing that you can get the absolute path from file descriptor, why don't you store it when you open that file???
One more thing, when a process is running, its information is stored in /proc folder.
/proc contains that folder of same name as of PID of the process, and that folder contains the information about the process. So for inside your program you can call
readlink ("/proc/self/fd", buffer, lenth); to access the detail of the file descriptors opend by your process. I don't know exactly that is there any information about the path of these file descriptors or not, but to get the path of the process executable we have "/proc/self/exe", so may be you'll find something of your interest.
Wish you all the best.

Beware too that there is not always a single relation between a file descriptor and a file path.
When a file in use by one process is removed by another process, the file descriptor has no more an existing file path associated with, while the first process can still use the file.
A file-descriptor can also have more than on file path associated to it, when hard links exists.
For the method to use, you may look at lsof code, that is very good finding information about open files.

how about using getdents() call and getting the file name from it. But I guess the best way is to retrive it from the /proc directory ie /proc/<pid>/fd

You may confuse /proc/<pid>/fd that how to go get the pid, thre are commands but simply if you use
/proc/self/fd it will automatically go to the folder for calling process.

Thank you for your replies, since i am working in kernel space i cannot use the 'sys_readlink' symbol which is not exported
in my kernel version.
Can you suggest me an alternative.
Is there any way to get the path from struct 'inode'.

i don't know exactly if will work or not, see command "lsof" maybe it can help you.

/proc/<pid>/path has the fd-to-path mapping for a process.

Yeah, I know this is an ancient thread, but somebody else could get here someday via google, as I did, and might be happy to find this.